Carl Renninger

Carl Renninger (born August 18, 1881 in Mainz , † August 28, 1951 in Munich ) was a German manufacturer and Lord Mayor of Mannheim from 1933 to 1945 .

Life

Renninger first attended secondary school in Mainz, after which he completed an apprenticeship at the General Alsatian Bank Corporation in Mainz. After completing his training, he spent two years studying language in France, England, Spain and Italy. In 1902 he attended the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences in Frankfurt am Main and then worked briefly at Deutsche Bank in Berlin.

In 1905 he founded an iron and sheet metal factory in Mannheim with money from his father's inheritance. During the First World War he was a member of the Strasbourg foot artillery regiment and the Mannheim motor vehicle battalion. In 1925 he switched his factory to the production of lead and zinc paints. In the late 1920s she ran into economic difficulties.

A member of the NSDAP since 1930 , Renninger was appointed Lord Mayor of Mannheim in 1933 after Hermann Heimerich had been arrested. Shortly before Mannheim was taken by the US Army in 1945, he and the head of the city administration went to Babstadt Palace , where he was arrested on April 3. He was indicted as the main culprit in the Arbitration Chamber proceedings . He was sentenced in 1948 as a suspect to a fine of RM 10,000 and a two-year labor camp, which was deemed to have been served due to pre-trial detention.

Renninger had been married to Amalie "Addie" Pauline Stumpf (1883–1965), the daughter of the socialist and revolutionary Paul Stumpf , and had seven children since 1906 . The neuroscientist Christoph von der Malsburg is his grandson.

Political role

Renninger's political role is still largely unexplored. Jacob Toury describes him as "consistently Nazi anti-Semitic" and calls him a special agitator. It would fit in with the fact that in 1935 the Mannheim city council asked the Jewish community to close a cemetery because there was a “lack of free spaces” in the district in question. Renninger threatened the refusing Jewish community that if they refused, "one day in Berlin the question will have to be raised as to whether the old Jewish cemeteries in Germany should not be completely disappeared."

Honorary positions

Chairman of the board of directors of the Baden racing club
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Grosskraftwerk Mannheim AG
Supervisory board of the “ Mitropa ” Central European Sleeping Car and Dining Car AG Berlin
Supervisory board of the Oberrheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG Mannheim
Member of the Board of Directors of the Reichsautobahnen

Works

Economy and community . In: Jahrbuch für Kommunalwissenschaft , Stuttgart, 5th year, 1938, issue 2, pp. 239–262.

literature

Alexander Knipsis: Carl Renninger: Mannheim's National Socialist Lord Mayor . In: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter 20/2010 . Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89735-671-9 .
Degener's Who is it ?, Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 1289.
The German Leader Lexicon 1934/1935, Berlin 1934, p. 379 f.
Lord Mayor Renninger 60 years old, in: Mannheimer Generalanzeiger of August 18, 1941.
Erich Stockhorst, Five thousand heads - Who was who in the Third Reich, Velbert 1967, p. 342.

Individual evidence

↑ Carl Renninger , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 00/1934 of January 1, 1934, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
↑ State Archives Ludwigsburg, signature: EL 902/19 Bü 4533 (procedural files of the Öhringen judicial chamber; with the first name Karl instead of Carl)
↑ Sebastian Parzer: Mannheim should not only rise again as a city of work ...: The second term of office of Mannheim's Lord Mayor Hermann Heimerich (1949–1955) . Ubstadt-Weiher 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-545-3 , p. 44.

↑ On his family cf. Jürgen Herrlein : Renninger , in: German Gender Book, Volume 211, Limburg / Lahn 2000, p. 607 ff.

↑ Jacob Toury, Jewish textile entrepreneurs in Baden-Württemberg 1683-1938 (= series of scientific treatises of the Leo Baeck Institute, vol. 42), Tübingen 1984, p. 234, footnote 17 with reference to Hans-Joachim Fliedner, Die Judenverführung in Mannheim , Vol. I, Stuttgart 1971, p. 175.

↑ Excerpt from the city council minutes of October 23, 1935, quoted in: Hans-Joachim Fliedner, Die Judenverendung in Mannheim 1933-1945, Vol. II: Documents, Stuttgart 1971, No. 136, p. 230 as well as in Andreas Wirsching, Jüdische Friedhöfe in Germany 1933-1957 , Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2002, issue 1, p. 7. (PDF; 7.5 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Renninger, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lord Mayor of Mannheim
DATE OF BIRTH	August 18, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mainz
DATE OF DEATH	August 28, 1951
Place of death	Munich

[1] Carl Renninger , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 00/1934 of January 1, 1934, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

[2] State Archives Ludwigsburg, signature: EL 902/19 Bü 4533 (procedural files of the Öhringen judicial chamber; with the first name Karl instead of Carl)

[3] Sebastian Parzer: Mannheim should not only rise again as a city of work ...: The second term of office of Mannheim's Lord Mayor Hermann Heimerich (1949–1955) . Ubstadt-Weiher 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-545-3 , p. 44.

[4] On his family cf. Jürgen Herrlein : Renninger , in: German Gender Book, Volume 211, Limburg / Lahn 2000, p. 607 ff.

[5] Jacob Toury, Jewish textile entrepreneurs in Baden-Württemberg 1683-1938 (= series of scientific treatises of the Leo Baeck Institute, vol. 42), Tübingen 1984, p. 234, footnote 17 with reference to Hans-Joachim Fliedner, Die Judenverführung in Mannheim , Vol. I, Stuttgart 1971, p. 175.

[6] Excerpt from the city council minutes of October 23, 1935, quoted in: Hans-Joachim Fliedner, Die Judenverendung in Mannheim 1933-1945, Vol. II: Documents, Stuttgart 1971, No. 136, p. 230 as well as in Andreas Wirsching, Jüdische Friedhöfe in Germany 1933-1957 , Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2002, issue 1, p. 7. (PDF; 7.5 MB)